Welcome, everyone, to Uncovering Asia: The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference. From September 23 to 25, we are bringing together top investigative reporters, data journalists, and media law and security experts from across Asia and around the world.

Below you will find more than 60 sessions and special events. There are panels on digging out hidden facts online, the environment, business, and how to fund your project; seminars on security and tracking dirty money; data journalism workshops by the best in the business; and much more.

You can follow us on Twitter at #IJAsia16. On behalf of your hosts — the Global Investigative Journalism Network, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Nepal, we wish you a big hello! Namaste!

Gemini Cheng Pui Shan

Ming Pao Journalist Hong Kong

Gemini Cheng Pui Shan is an investigative reporter at Ming Pao Newspaper, Hong Kong. She participated in the reporting of the Panama Papers leak as part of the paper's investigative reporting team. Cheng and her team also wrote a feature series on a loophole in voter registrations which revealed ballot-rigging. The story was named winner of the print media in the 2015 Kam Yiu-Yu Press Freedom Awards. The Hong Kong native graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a degree in journalism and communications.